468 PRINCIPLES OF BOTANY, ETC. 
William Roxburgh, an Englishman by birth, 
now physician at Samulcottah on the coast of Co- 
. romandel, has, by the advice of Dr Russel at Ma- 
dras, and at the expence of the East India Com- 
pany, under Sir Joseph Bank’s direction, begun to 
publish an elegant but very expensive work, on the 
useful plants of India*. 
Johann Christoph Wendland, born at finda 
and overseer of the gardens at Herrnhausen, near 
Hanover, has made many important and interesting 
experiments and discoveries on the great number of 
plants which are cultivated there. Those he has 
communicated to the world in several treatises, espe- 
cially in his greater works f. 
Cade Per- 
Ejusd. Nova genera plantarum, pars prima. Lipsiae. 1797. 
fol. with 6 elegantly Hluminated plates. It contains seme 
species of fungi. 
* Plants of the coast of Coromandel, selected from draw- 
ings and descriptions presented tothe Hon. Court of Directors 
of the East India Company, by William Roxburgh, M.D. 
Vol. I. London. 1795. in large folio. Only 3 numbers have 
appeared, each with 25 beautiful plates, drawn very faithfully 
after nature. Many new Indian plants are delineated, very 
well dissected and described in English. 
+ Sertum Hanoveranum, seu plantae rariores quae in hortis 
Hanoverae vicinis coluntur, descriptae ab H. A. Schrader, deli- 
neata’ et sculptae a J. C. Wendland. Goettingae. 1795, 
fol. maj. Mr Wendland published this work in the begin- 
ning with Mr Schrader, and three numbers of it have appear- 
ed. The 4th is published by Mr Wendland alone. ‘The draw- 
ings and plates are done by this gentleman himself, in the first 
numbers the descriptions and the original observations are like- 
wise his work, andthe last number is entirely his own. This work 
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